He hung an atmosphere peculiar to the Gothic Quarter, the old quarter of the cathedral in the heart of Barcelona. Along the cobbled streets, where players of lute charming stone and seem to stop the noise of the world, strange figures gliding towards the conference room of City Hall. Buddhist monks, Orthodox patriarchs, Protestant leaders, muftis, chief rabbis, cardinals, illustrious religious personalities from all continents had come to participate, from Sunday, September 2 and for three days at the 15th International Meeting for Peace (also called Prayer for Peace or Love of Assisi) organized by the Catholic community of Sant’Egidio..

Designed to promote dialogue among religions and their role in the search for peace, this unique conference brings together such diverse personalities of the secular world. director of Le Nouvel Observateur), Paul Grossrieder (Director General of the International Committee for Red Cross) and were asked to intervene with their religious counterparts in the panels on the major contemporary issues.

A special place was reserved for Africa in this mosaic inter-continental. Sant’Egidio, whose unusual methods of mediation led Mozambique to a lasting peace agreement in 1992, has active communities on the continent. She has several development projects and has been sought in various capacities for dialogue in Democratic Congo, Burundi and Sudan. Also, it is no surprise that the word was given to Laurent Gbagbo at the opening night.

2002 edition of the Prayer for Peace. Secondly, more political, a call for participation of Sant’Egidio to Reconciliation Forum. But a long process of assessment must now take place. Sant’Egidio is not a panaceano doubt that we will intervene if certain conditions are guaranteed in the Forum.

This intuition, Ahmadou Kourouma relays it with conviction. We can not do without the dialogue, a dialogue dispassionately. Here, in the exchange with other people, other stories, we can play down our own concerns.

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